Journal of Aging and Innovation (Dec 2016)

Prevención y control de la infección por Clostridium difficile

  • Rita Margarida Dourado Marques, ,
  • Guilherme Filipe Santos Rodrigues

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 5 – 10

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Abstract Prevention and control of infection transmission are assumed to be a major focus of activity of health professionals. Clostridium difficile is bacteria present in the gut without causing diseases in healthy people, but with the use of some antibiotics, that can disrupt the normal balance of the intestinal flora can trigger-pathology. This systematic literature review aims to determine what precautions to prevent and control infection by the bacteria referred.